A 5-year-old boy died Thursday after he was left in a hot car for an extended amount of time, authorities in Mansfield said.
First responders rushed to a parking lot on Marion Avenue around 3:35 p.m. and found a woman holding her unresponsive child at the scene.
About nine hours earlier, the mother arrived at work and went inside, leaving the 5-year-old boy in the backseat as temperatures reached a high of 91 degrees.
The child was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“My heart is just broken,” said Olivia Kidd, a day care teacher said remembering how he loved snack time.
“He told me he loved me every day. I will miss seeing him at school next year, going to all of his events, seeing him at T-ball.”
“I don’t know how I could forget him. I will remember him in everything, honestly.”
“He was a wonderful child. He really was,” caregiver Jessica Phillips said.
